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Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

Serafina is summoned from her village to the magical cottage of a great aunt she has never heard of and learns that she is meant to become the new Baba Yaga, whose magical role is answering the first question any stranger might ask her with the truth.

In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.

"It isn't natural for you to be younger than your great-grandchildren. We messed around with nature, and we shouldn't have. Melly and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger..."

When a Pincent Pharma truck is ambushed by the Underground, revealing not the expected supply of drugs but corpses, it becomes clear that the Longevity prescription for eternal youth is failing to live up to its promises, and when the Underground is blamed for releasing a deadly virus, the truth finally comes out.

"Believe in the unexpected" with this hilarious, heartwarming, and much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Fourteenth Goldfish! Ellie's grandpa Melvin is a world-renowned scientist ... in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy. His feet stink, and he eats everything in the refrigerator?and Ellie is so happy to have him around. Grandpa may not exactly fit in at middle school, but he certainly keeps things interesting. When he and...

"Ellie's mother, a high school theater teacher, comes home with a strange boy. He dresses like an adult and is grumpy and bossy. As incredible as it sounds, he looks a lot like her grandfather, a scientist that has always been obsessed with aging and mortality. Is it possible that he figured out eternal youth?" --

Living somewhere in our midst are little creatures who make it their business to cause a bit of chaos and make sure things age, become jumbled up, and get dirty. When Typo, one such elf, escapes from his school trip to a little girl's birthday party, his adventures in the human world are just beginning.